Scotland’s marriage equality bill was introduced yesterday. The BBC reports: A proposed bill to allow same-sex marriage in Scotland has been published at Holyrood. The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill aims to revise the law, while protecting rights of religious groups not to carry out ceremonies. Now that the proposal has been lodged it will undergo scrutiny before committee …
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Yes On 8 Sounds Surrender-y
“California’s Constitution says that only an appellate court, not a single trial court judge, can stop a proposition’s enforcement statewide. As of today, there is no such ruling. Nevertheless, the Governor and Attorney General today rushed forward with plans to make same-sex ‘marriage’ licenses available throughout California in the next three or four weeks. And that is where it sits …
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Dems Move On DOMA Section Two
Yesterday House and Senate Democrats wasted no time in announcing their plan to overturn the remaining portion of DOMA by reintroducing the Respect For Marriage Act. The Supreme Court Wednesday threw out just one section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn) wants to strike the law’s death blow. Nadler and Sen. Dianne Feinstein …
Read More »FRC: Our Marriage Fight Has Just Begun
“By a single vote, five unelected justices determined that they know better than God and struck at the heart of marriage in America. It was a powerful rebuke of a law FRC helped develop, the Defense of Marriage Act, but not the final blow. Fortunately, conservative leaders across our country aren’t about to let that happen. In interview after interview, …
Read More »Garfunkel & Oates – The Loophole
“A song about Christian girls who stay virgins until they’re married but have anal sex instead.” Language is super not work-friendly.
Read More »Open Thread Thursday
In what ways, if any, will yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions immediately affect your life?
Read More »Edith Windsor Endorses Christine Quinn
Tonight at the DOMA/Prop 8 celebration in the West Village, DOMA victor Edith Windsor announced her endorsement of Christine Quinn for New York City mayor. I had left the press area in front of the stage and was near Anthony Weiner, who was glad-handing admirers further up the block, but I couldn’t see his face for a reaction. (Video by …
Read More »San Francisco Says Goodbye To Prop 8
From JMG reader Sean Chapin in San Francisco. Bring on the happy dancing bears! Play loud!
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